Queen of the Damned

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Queen of the Damned

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Released Feb 22, 2002

1h 41m

Horror

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Follows the legendary vampire Lestat (Stuart Townsend), who has reinvented himself as a rock star in the contemporary American music scene. His music wakes Akasha (Aaliyah), the queen of all vampires, and inspires her desire to make Lestat her king. Akasha's malevolent power is so great that all the immortal vampires must stand against her if they want to survive. Meanwhile, a young London woman with a fascination for the dark side (Marguerite Moreau) falls in love with Lestat.

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Critics Consensus

A muddled and campy MTV-styled vampire movie with lots of eye candy and bad accents.

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Lisa Alspector

Chicago Reader

Michael Rymer stages high-tech sequences combining gore, romance, and gothy music, and he has enough conviction to make what could have been very silly strangely provocative.

Oct 20, 2009

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Scott Foundas

Variety

It isn't great entertainment or camp, but pic sets its ambitions so low, it can't help partially delivering on them.

Sep 15, 2008

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Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

The film is vampire roadkill.

Rated: 1/4

Aug 14, 2007

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Cassondra Feltus

Black Girl Nerds

'Queen of the Damned' is considered a bad adaptation, over-the-top silly, and just a poorly structured film in general. All are true. However, many, myself included, see it more as a disasterpiece, a guilty pleasure, a piece of 2000s nu metal nostalgia.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 25, 2022

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Pat Stacey

The Herald (Ireland)

The result is a film that's as camp as Butlins but nowhere near as much fun and full of awful performances and silly dialogue

Oct 17, 2017

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Steve Newton

Georgia Straight

It's mainly an excuse for director Michael Rymer to unleash his arsenal of flashy, MTV-type visuals and Moulin Rouge costume designer Angus Strathie to play dress-up.

Rated: 1.5/5

Feb 8, 2014

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Michael C

Still one of my all time favorite movie!!! Aaliyah as Akasha is ICONIC!!! ICONIC MOVIE!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/04/25

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xpig332 B

I liked it and I hate most movies, screw the critics!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

10/02/25

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Christine B

Not the Anne Rice Queen of the Damned (totally different than the book), but it's a lot of fun and great vampire characters. Aaliyah is very good in this movie, but so is Stuart Townsend and Vincent Perez. Fun to get the backstory of Lestat. This doesn't take a lot of brain power to watch. Just something fun to pass the afternoon or Saturday night!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

09/27/25

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Incog D

Its a serviceable standalone sequel to Interview With A Vampire but to be fair, this movie could've heavily been improved on by music and plot choices. Aaliyah shines in her final role and shows how robbed we were of a talent gone too soon. It's an optional watch for those wanting more vampires but if you pass on this flick, it's completely understandable.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

09/12/25

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Cork B

I really liked all the Anne Rice books when I read them 20 or 30 years ago. I was fascinated by the 'ancient ones' and how vampire power relations worked - and backhauling the story to ancient Egypt was pretty cool. There is SOME of that in this film, but you get very little backstory and explanation of which I bet there was more in the book. Instead, we get this soft-core K-orn (pun intended) with an absolutely grating soundtrack. Townsend isn't bad as the self absorbed Twilight hottie, but so much of what was going on around him made no sense. Blade was a far superior vampire flick for the era.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

09/06/25

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Carson S.

It was awful. Pure dreck. What a tragedy this was that poor girl’s legacy. I would have given it a 1/4 star if I could have.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

07/06/25

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Synopsis

Follows the legendary vampire Lestat (Stuart Townsend), who has reinvented himself as a rock star in the contemporary American music scene. His music wakes Akasha (Aaliyah), the queen of all vampires, and inspires her desire to make Lestat her king. Akasha's malevolent power is so great that all the immortal vampires must stand against her if they want to survive. Meanwhile, a young London woman with a fascination for the dark side (Marguerite Moreau) falls in love with Lestat.

Director: Michael Rymer
Producer: Jorge Saralegui
Screenwriter: Anne Rice, Scott Abbott, Michael Petroni
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co: Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures
Rating: R (Vampire Violence)
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 22, 2002, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 17, 2009
Box Office (Gross USA): $30.3M
Runtime: 1h 41m
Sound Mix: Dolby Stereo, Dolby Digital, Dolby A, Surround, Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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